•The house where Marilyn Monroe died is on the market, according to the website TopTenRealEstateDeals.com Here’s the listing from agent David Offer: “Thick walls, traditional casement windows, polished concrete and terra cotta tile floors, original wood beamed ceilings and period hardware & tiles create a warm, inviting and unique environment. French doors open to private […]
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(Benjamin Olivo/mySA.com) The Tower Life Building opened as the Smith-Young Tower in 1929. Transwestern announced today that it’s handling leasing for the Tower Life building downtown. The 31-story building, at 310 S. St. Mary’s Street on the San Antonio River, is 82 percent occupied. The 1929 building was designed by Atlee B. and Robert M. […]
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(Courtesy photo) Calling all owners of old houses. Have a vintage home? Or want one so that you, too, can have stunning wood floors, yet no closet space? (I’m speaking from experience here). The city’s Office of Historic Preservation is holding its Historic Homeowner Fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Municipal Auditorium. […]
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Carlos Moreno Local architectural firm Marmon Mok has promoted Community Health/Senior Living Studio Leader Carlos Moreno to Partner. Moreno began with the firm in 2001 as a project architect. Since then he has focused on healthcare and specialty living facilities for senior citizens. Recent projects he has worked on include the Incarnate Word Retirement Community, […]
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•Mixed news in housing again today. It looks like mortgage rates keep hitting new lows, reaching 4.36 percent. But if you have a mortgage, the Associated Press says you have a one in 10 chance of landing in foreclosure. Here’s the story: One in 10 American households with a mortgage was at risk of foreclosure […]
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•Everyone is freaking out over today’s announcement that the number of existing home sales dropped like a rock in July. The Dow is at a six-month low. The sky is falling and so on. The Associated Press reports: “The National Association of Realtors said sales of previously occupied homes plunged in July to an annual […]
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The first public workshop for the MidTown Brackenridge Master Plan will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at TriPoint, 3233 North St. Mary’s Street. The city and the San Antonio River Authority want public input for the master plan, which will help guide redevelopment efforts and identify key public projects. The MidTown Brackenridge […]
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The 82-unit Country Club Village Apartments, located just northwest of the Loop 410 and Interstate 10 interchange, has received a $1,198,371 grant to improve energy efficiency, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced. It was one of four affordable housing developments in Texas awarded a total of $7.2 million in American Recovery and […]
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•A New York Times editorial today calls for more federal help in stopping the national foreclosure crisis. “As repossessed homes are put up for sale, house prices are likely to fall further. As prices fall, more borrowers end up “underwater” — owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. That’s a big risk […]
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Do you have creaky, stuck, broken or weather beaten wooden windows in your house? There’s a workshop to fix that. The University of Texas at San Antonio’s College of Architecture, ARTchitectural Interiors, San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation and Alamo Hardwoods Inc., are giving a wood window workshop until 4 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. […]
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